Nearly two years after being extradited from Mexico, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the drug lord known as El Chapo, is finally facing trial in a United States court. Here’s why it took so long to get to this moment.

Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the drug lord known as El Chapo, was extradited to the United States in January 2017. He had twice escaped from maximum-security prisons in Mexico.CreditU.S. law enforcement, via Associated Press